GM has paused gross sales of the 2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV over “software program high quality points,” the corporate introduced late Friday.
“We’re conscious {that a} restricted variety of Blazer EV homeowners have skilled some software program high quality points,” stated the corporate in an official response supplied to Inexperienced Automotive Experiences.
“To make sure our prospects have an incredible expertise with their car, we’re briefly pausing gross sales of Blazer EVs,” the GM assertion added. “Our group is working shortly to roll out a repair, and homeowners can be contacted with additional data on learn how to schedule their replace. We apologize for the inconvenience.”
The proactive pause comes after a number of incidents this previous week, each on social media and conventional auto-review sources, have highlighted a variety of software program errors in early-delivery variations of the Blazer EV—a few of them showing to get in the way in which of usability.
2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV RS
One in all them, skilled by InsideEVs on a highway journey, noticed a number of infotainment glitches adopted by varied error lights signaling faults, with the car rendered succesful solely of barely fast-charging at a home-charging price. And a 2024 Blazer EV purchased by Edmunds for its long-term fleet lately confirmed the same overload of errors, with 23 completely different fault codes, after the infotainment “melted down” and energy home windows wouldn’t function.
A fast search of Reddit and a number of other different boards discovered that whereas there could be a comparatively low variety of automobiles delivered to this point, these usually are not remoted incidents.
GM emphasizes that these software program points usually are not safety-related or associated both to its Ultium EV propulsion suite or to Google built-in. Thus, it’s not a security recall, and in all incidents the automobiles have been drivable, with security methods nonetheless operable—if drivers are prepared to look previous the stream of errors and clean infotainment screens.
Inexperienced Automotive Experiences skilled one such glitch that could be associated to those reported points. On one (however not each) of the Blazer EVs pushed as a part of a 2024 Chevy Blazer assessment, toggling one-pedal driving would trigger the display screen to momentarily go clean and unresponsive, with a faucet of the higher app tray finally bringing regular operation again.
2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV
Chevrolet informed media in attendance on the latest Blazer EV occasion that this mannequin is able to over-the-air updates for all car methods, so even a serious replace won’t require a visit again to the dealership.
GM didn’t have up to date gross sales numbers for the Blazer EV, which is the primary of GM’s Ultium EVs to be made in Mexico, but it surely underscored that “the problem impacts solely a restricted group of consumers.” Deliveries have been taking place over the previous a number of weeks and totals via the quarter and month are anticipated from the corporate the primary week of January.
With deliveries on maintain, some patrons can also have missed a window of alternative. GM final week confirmed that because of last-minute sourcing guidelines imposed by the Biden administration, most of its new electrical automobiles, together with the Blazer EV, will lose their tax-credit eligibility in January—though they’ll earn it again later within the 12 months.
